The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, February 23, 1860, Image 1

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tor's Notiees, each, 1 50
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age Notices, each, 1 00
rce Notices, cub, 1 60
inistrator's Sales, per square for 4 .
sertions.
mess or Professional Cirds, each,
esceding 9 lines, per year, - - 500
quid Editorial Notices. per line, - 10
111 transient advertisements must be
in advance, and no notice will be taken
ltertisements from a distance, unless they
accompanied by the money or satisfactor
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FIN S. MANN;
ttNEY AND C6I.7I , ISELLOR AT LAW.
mdersport, Pa., will attend .the several
torte in Potter and M'Kean Counties. All
sinecs entrusted in his care will receive
lmpt attention. Odin on Main st., oppo
the Courthouse. 10:1
F. W. KNOX, •
ANSI( AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will
,ularly attend the C 041141 in Potter and
adjoining Counties. 10:1
ARTHUR G. -OLMSTED,
ANEY 3 COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
mdersport, Pa., will attend to all business
:trusted to his care, with promptnes and
lk.ity. Office in Temperance. Block, sec
id door, Main St. IOA
ISAAC BENSON. •
ANEW AT LAW. Coudersport,--Pa., will.
sad to all business entrusted to him, with
re aud - promprness. Office tome" of. West
Third sts: 10:1
C. L. _HOYT,
,L ENGINEER, SURVEYOR and
tAUGHTSMAN, Bingham, Potter Co.,
~will promptly and ealtiently attend tc
business entrusted to him. First-class
afession4 rererepces can be given if re
tired, 11:25.-Iy*
CHARLES REISSMANN,
INET MAKER, having erected a new. and
litet - ilerit Shop, on the corner
'Third and West- streets, will be happy to
:eite and fill all orders in his calling.
pairing and re-fitting carefully and neatly
oe ou short n9tico.
lersport, Nov. 8, 1859.—11-Iy. -
0. T. ELLISON,
ICING PHYSICIAN:, Coudersport, Pa.,
!ctfnlly informs the citizens-9f the vil
and vicinity that be will promply re
ad all calls for professional services.
Ace on Main st., in building formerly oc
ipied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. 9:22
ZEIMM
SMITH & JONES,
IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS;
Fancy Articles.Stationcry, Dry Goods,
,ocories, &c., Main st., Coudersport, Pa.
10:1
D. E. OLMSTED,
. IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE
Ain, Crockery, Groceries, &C., Main st.,
ulersport, Pa. 10:1
M. NV; MANN,
IN BOOKS & StATIDNERY, 'NAG
NES and Ilusie, N. W. corner of
Third sta., Coudersport, Pa. 10:1
'bi AIM. '• aii4T-101Y )
411 rand TAILOR; lute from the City of
terpool, England. Shop opposite Court
am, Coudersport; railer Co. Pa.
N. B. —Particular attention paid. to CUT
TING.IO:3S—iy. •
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, ,„,.„. B. D. KELLY
OLMSTED & KELLY,
ILER IN STUBS, TIN .1: SHEET IRON
Main et., nearly opinsite the Court
P9P,e, Condersport, Pa. Tin and Sheet
NO Wire made to ordet. in good etsle, on
short notice. 10:1
" COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
• -II G4ASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner of
14111 S ad 2ccqud Streets, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co., Ps, • 9:44
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ALLEGANY HOUSE,
LrEi M. MILLS, Proprietor, ColCAurg
Litter Co., Ps., seven miles nrth of Con
""rg"rt- all the WPllsrille Road. 9:44
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LYMAN •EOUS , •
U. LYMAN, PrOprietor, Ulysses tte Co.,
P. This Rouse is situated on the East
corner ofMain '
street ;- opposite A. Corey
Son's Store, and is well adapted to meet the)
tracts pf patron s and friends. .".12:11;ly.
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D. -&: 11. D4INTELS,
.ERE 'IN DRY-. GOODS, GROCERIES,
. It eacii-Nlade - Clothing:CrOckaiir, hardware,.
Books, stationery, Ellats,sCaps, 11130ta, Shoes,
Paints; !cc., &c., Ulysses,' Potter Co.,
l' h k NY - Cash paid foi Hides' and
"C Allkiads of Grain taken in exclian
tar trade.-12:20.
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, T 4 ;TRW-M=ll4la' JOB N BROWN
srelkfenifhiervelarithee. friefid of the
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44. htextheAlicvolimessed 'neittli
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'ireiftly thy forg;e:ei. Admire thee most truly,
'hile birEtcliten thy name till
they
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For long in Anwic,a's gfesoi pleasant7ralleyi
Will fthers.nii'd'ii - ildrei . v:erogn.nbor kilo : doom
Of hini;;4l.iii'llescitotping, uttionm` rife wild
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:incituathins,. • ' !• •
With the ,wfiti••.of the
. north-pinds to -chant
• o'ir'll4 . tomb.
And oft when "larlependeute morning"' la
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Amilies, by. its loud cannon, the young. and
the old—
Er'ry true-hearted patriot, gnid the gerCial
rejoicing.
Wiil blush for his countny.when thy history's
told. , . .
The young northern Olata;'as with -pleasure
150
she dresses
Her brown, sunny locks fnjiome national ay,
Will think on thy fate, - till ) neglecting her
tresse3,
She mournfully turns from her .mirror away
Nor will Freedom—beloved qf. her Hero—
forget thee,
Though tyrauts watch over her tears as they
mitt ;
Close, cloie by file side Of her temple
set thee, .
Embdrued in the innermost Ahrine of her
heart.
Farewell! be it ours to endear tlty memory
In the hearts of our people, who lore Freedom's
laws;
Every groan of the slave, and each cry far
delivery,
Will arouse them to 'action reviving thy
cause. LERA.
eijnict
Cursed with-Blessing's.
" Cursed with blessings." I closed the
page, and leaned.baelt in reflection. • •
"Mere is /another paradox," said I.
"Cursed with blessings! It is simply a
contradiction iu terms. -What does the
writer mean?" . .
I turned to the page , a again,: and read
on. There. is such a _thing_ as;:_betng
cursed with blessings, so that the . earthly
wed a wan seeks, shall become the great.
est evil that can be visited upon hiin."
Some gleams of light passed into my
wind. Thought and memory went to
work ; and soon around the proposition
gathered a host of illustrating incidents.
I remembered the case of a wan who, in
early and 'riddle life, always, in family
prayer, brought in the petition—"lncrease
our basket and store." And the worldly
good things he so much desired, came;
came in rich abundance. lie added house
to house, until his rents flowed back up
on him, a princely Income. :But, his self
ish heart made all his earthly blessings a
curse. Like the miser, his life v as in his
possessions; and wh6n anything threaten
ed these, trouble of spirit arose. The
dread of loss by fire, haunted him like a
murderer's conscience. II e.insured ; but
felt only half protected by insurance, for
there were dishonest companies, flaws in,
contracts, quibbles in the law. He Inidi
suffered one loss in this way. It was 'not
serious, but enough to break his faith in
Insurance as a reliahle protection against
fire. And so, every stroke of the alarm
bell, by night or by day, gave a shock to
his nerves, -and sent a pang of fear to his
heart. Sweet, refreshing sleep. cecame
a stranger to his pillow. The ghost of
apprehension was forever by his side, a
fearful vision.
IMMM
Then carne a morbid dread of poverty;
and, atter a time, his day-dreams and fit.
ful night-visions began to be of pauperism
and the almshouse. At sixty he wasin
sane, from this cause, and dictl, in the
hallucination of abject want, leaving a
Jitiodied :thousand dollars of. property,
which passed to heirs, who made the bless-.
ine a curse also, as he had dtine, but in
another way.. In five years from his death,
his two sins realized their father's fears,.
and now fill pauper's graves.
'"Cursed with blessings 1 Even so!"
I I said, as memory closed the pigeon which
this history was recorded. " Like the
manna which the' children of Israel gath
ered in the wilderness, life's. blessitms
must be used to-day—if hoarded selfishly,
they will not keep."
Another illustration Memory gave. I
knew a man who set his heart upon wealth,
as a means of comfort in old age. -" lam
wiling to work now," be used to say,
" while I am young and vigorous; though
business is distasteful to me. love ease
and freedom, and for.the sake of gaining
-them, I toil an in early manhood."'
And while.he toiled on he -was com
paratively happy." I can remember him
as one of the most cheerful men in -my
pirelo of aCquaintance. Dut competence
rgwarded hi; labor - ere yet his sun of life
- .114 swept beyond .the zenith, an.d. iiis
" baiketand store" were full. - -His toil
crowned him with blessings, And so lie
retired from the busy World to enjoy these
►good things which had come to him ill
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Nvturo. fin- Arbor& itlustry:,irltiaseloezny.
ba.dirtaidstti. foi :bunks:l6o,
lave:of-art; .nofortilnbss.fers - CatUlky ,
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been,plessaut_sgalu4etring.l.-
win eateflpictly ne. • direction./
was a mark !ors busiucet ±;; acid toot alone.
Anil ao, he had tustiring int dia but to.'s.it
down.and enjoys hitribelf;s-.11 - cny'rirepo - ssi-s
ble that was.: be discovered- in less' than
a.rnouth.: paring- the fiistirsatiil, second'
seasons .he tried Cape, 'Dldyk;Seratogn,
{ .Newport, and .a trip. dowitrthe-Lalces end ;
at the / St. .La.wrence..,.:,Rut.-.he did not
really . 1 enlny -:3 - Xosceoulilss he ?
Therc,is.u4 enjoyment` for it ;nititi living
withouta purpose.:,Mere.killitig. tiriee is
only a
.plow,.soul-killing operatiorr; and is
always accompanied by pain.
Ten years ago it -was when my friend
retired from business, to: enjoy' his for-1
tune. Hisetip.of blessing was full, - and I
be bas,heen holding it -to his lips ever
since; trying - to find sweetness in the
draught; but,, judging from the expres
sion of his face, the tune of his voice,- and
the character of his remarks, I think the
wine in his cup must be dashed with un
usual ,bitterness.... His blessing has be
come. a : curse,
•
- Another received a moderate fortune
from .a distantorelative. He happened to
be heir.at-low, and the relative dying with
out a will, lte came most unexpectedly in
to possession• of about thirty-five thbusaud
dollars iu cash. He was a clerk, with a
salary of one thousand-dollars a year, liv
ing frugally with his wife and two chil
dren ins small, rented house. Few men
enjoyed life with a keener zest than this
young man. But the fortune proved his
ruin. The clerkship was at oncd given
up fora business venture; the hired house
for a haPdsume purchased dwelling; om
nibus rides for drives in an el , :zant car
riage; social ica companies for. elegant
parties. His .csurse was
made
but
brief. The blessing was made a curse.
Soured, dissatisfied, maddened by a sud
den fall from . the height up to which he
had soared, away-. down into the valley
of -abject poverty, lie lost self-respect and
self-control. Drink -made the ruin com
plete. His pale• widow sits toiling now,
early and late;.•mtriving to keep •tho wolf
of hunger.from,her door: • •i' , . :•
Shall thiseillustra
tions of the text ? • They may be taken
frnm every condition in life, and from all
of its wide relations. There is not .a. read
er who cannot supply his quota, and set
them even in stronger light than we have
done: And. there is not a reader who
may not, with the writer, find in his'own
past history almost unnumbered instances,
in which he has turned his good things
into dvil; his blessing into cursing. We
all, do it, when we let affection rest in
mere natural and sensual things, instead
of making these things ministers of the
soul's high.er life. Worldly possessions
are blessings, if acquired as a means to
- useful ends; but they curse us, when we
make them .our chiefest good.—Strps
toward Heaven.
Love a Wife and Care for a
Wife.
I wish every husband would copy into
his memorandum book this sentence, from
a recently published work : •" Women.
must be constituted very differently from
men. A. word said, a line written, and
we are happy; omitted, our hearts ache,
as if for a great misfortune. Men cannot
feel it, or guess at it; if they did, the
mot careless of them would be slow to
wound us so."
The grave bides many a heart, which
has been .stung to death,' because one
who tuight, after all-have loved it after
a certain careless fashion, was deaf; dumb,
and blind to the truth in the sentence we
have just quoted, or, if not, was at least
restive and impatient with regard' to if.
Many men, marrying late in in life, being
accustomed only 'to take care of them
selves, and that in-the most erratic, ram
bling. exciting fashion, eating, drinking,
sleeping, and waking whenever their fan.:
cy, or good cheer and amusement, ques
tionable or unquestionable, prompted,'
come at last, when 'they get:tired of this,
with their selfish habits fixed as' fate, to
matrimony. For 'awhile it is novelty.
, Shortly, it is strange and • irksome, this
way's'being obliged to consider the com
fort and happiness of another. To have
something always hanging on the arm,
which used to string free, or, at most, but
twirl a cane. Then they think their duty
I done if they provide !God and
and retrain (possibly) from harsh words: p
Ah, is if? - Listen to that .o'o as you
eloSe the dbor. Watelt - the gradtial fad;
ing of the eye, *the panng of the cheek,
not from age—she should be yet young—
but that gnawing pain MAL° heart, born
of the settled conviction that the 'great .
hungry craving of her soul, as far as you
are concerned, must go forevet unsatisfied.
God help such wives, and keep.them from
attempting to sliek - their soul's thirst at
poisoned fountains. •
Think you; her 'husband ; Ito* little a
kind word, a smile, a caress to you, hoYr
tune!' to her. • If you call these things
t , childish, and beneath your notice, "then
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a woman may think herself into anjusene,
asylum, 'while the active out-dOor turuloif
of business life. is ht least a :sometitre re.''
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prieve to him. : '
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Da you ask roe, "Anil t here nobappy
wives ?"j God be praised, ygs, and gloll.
rious, lo veable husbands; too, who know
how 'to treat a woniani , *lKl would have
her neither fool nor drudge. 'Altnoit
every 'wife would be 'a good and 'happy
wife were she only loved enough. Let
husbabds, present and ptospective, think
, of this.—Lendim Journal.
itivT.
THE trial of AndreW Stevens, at
Charlestown, Va., for m 4 treason, &C-,
as an accomplice of John Brown, was con
cluded on Saturday week. After an ab
sence of fifteen tril'hutes, (the jury return
ed a verdict of guilty on , ..lLthe counts of
the indictment: Steve s, it is said,'re
ceived the verdict with great composure,
a smile appearing on his face as it was
announced.
GOVERNOR CHASE tells the story that
when Lieut. Gov, Newm i nn of Tennessee;
was in Cincinnati with the Kentucky and
Tennessee Legislatures, lhe was 'accorn,
poled bylis -"body servant," a spright
ly; saddle 7 culored "boy.' about thirty,
who was conscious of h s dignity. Ills
master, who was in the• abit of jesting
ci i
i
with him familiarly, ace sted him in the
hall of the Neil Ilousedjust before the
departure of the guests, i with a "Why,
Jack, hasn't army of the Abolitionists car
ried you off yet ?" " Y&11! yah l- Mass .
Newman,. (qUoth Jack) I hen, I seed ,you
gwine down de street a In in arm mid
Gubner Dennison and übner Chase, I
tot you were gone, sure4-yah ! yab !" •
,
SOME naturalized citizens of Irish birth,
residingd in the Town of IMettesha, Wis.,
having;been accused.of gelling out to the
Republicans, Michael Hogan, one of their
number, comes out in a letter to the Con
scrvgtor, with a statemezit of his reasons
for leaving the Democrats. He declares!
he attached himself to that party, believ-'
ing, in cornthon with many of his country-
Men that they
,were thefriendspf the la
boring man, particularl2,l to those of for
eign birth. lie has been with them long
'enough to ko-)w.that thesle professions are
false; and made 'to delude the ignorant,
The millions of landlessj.poor from Eu
rope•had a right to enact that the Home
stead bill would received hearty support
at the hands of a party , that cwed its.as
ceodency to. their votes
_but they had
been &Joined .th . disappoihtnient. - - Labor
should everywhere he hotiOrable; but an
effort is now making to °grade it. Dein
ti ti
.-
ocratic Senators declare_t at "labor is the
legitimate" sphere of s4ves; that labor
should be owned and not _hit ed, thnsitrik 7
ing it' blow at' the very, jberties o f nine=
tenth of the, Democrat et voters of - the
North. and no voice of ondeiunation is
raised to protect us.'!, - . ..• . : -
Slavery in the.lep jritories ver
sns Pnpular - Soreignity. l
An eztrc . tcl from a,recend peech- *livered' in
Springfield, H 1:1
ass., by C at. S6ellZ, Of
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Wisconsip, a Qerm6i: patriot. 1 '
Of all mod, Mr.' Douglas' ought to be'
the first to know whatike true intent and
meaning - of the Nebraska, bill .and the
principle of popular, so+eiguty is. He'
is said to be a statesman, and it Must be
presumed that'his meal rests' Upon . a
positive idea; for all tr a statestansliip
is founded upon positive ideas., :,. •
In order to find - out 3 -r..Peuglas's own
dednition isf, his own "reat principle,"
'we are obliged - to 'pick u the Most luaid,
of his statements as 'we find them seat.'
f
tered about ,in numerous speeches and
manifestoes. After multifarious orals
ings upon the sea of plaiforins and argu
ments, Mr. Douglas nasdat, last landed at
the following point) "A slave," saysle,
in his famous • Harper-Magazine article,
"a islave, - witliin the, meaning - of the Con
stitution, is a,person held to, service or
labor in oue,State - , ynder gi,e. 4zuss flier's
, af'—not under - the Constitution of the
United States, or under tlielawa"tliereof„
nor, by •virtua of any' P,ederal anti:Milky
' whatever, but under theilaws oil* par~
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iMpOrtart 'fight sec u red by the Cfonstitu
tion-465.tiiiti.laioi4;' to" enact ' a idneral
slave code:for the TerritOrii , s,' But Mr.
Dbuglas is: not satisfied -With:, this: - In'
order to stretigtlien-his-asSumption, and
td annihilate me. Biichairarsconsit•uetion
of the Nebraika bill still lore, he pro
tceeds :." The Constitution being uniform
eilerywhere Within the do inions of the
United State's, being the s prome law of
iithe•land, an} in: the' onstitution or
laws of any .Of the States t the contrary
nOtwithstandiog, why : ,dos not slavery
exist in- Pennsylvania, just as well as in,
Kansas or in South Carolina, by virtue
of the same Constitution , iince Pennsyl-1
vania is subordinate to the Constitution'
inl the same manner and tit the same ex- 1
tent as Saudi Carolina and Kansas?" 1
I r ilust so . . Mr. Douglas baiting been so ,
positive, lie gannet deny ii l s . the privilege'
ofi making a few logical deductions froin
his awn premises. We expect him to
prineed in the following manner : "Since
a slave is held under the laws of.a State,
land not under the Cons stution or the
(laws of the United States, slavery exists
'only by virtue of local law," or, as the
lCourt of Appeals of Kentneky expressed
it, " the right to hold a slave exists only
•
1 by positive late p} a municipal character,
and has no foundation in the .law of na
ture, or the unwritten and common law."
If slavery cannot exist except by virtue of
loaallaw of a municipal character, it fol
lows, as an irresistible consequence, that
a alaveholder cannot holdja slave as prop
erly in' a Territory where there is no local,
lavi of a municipal character establishing
that. right of property. I And, further,
the right to, hold a slave hiving• nolo tn
dation in the law..pf .nature, or the un
written and cominpn law, we ' are forced
a.
to' the conclusion that 'slave, - I..rought by
his owner upon the soil of h.• Teriitoil
before the Territorial - Lect c •iMaturc have
~.
anaoted laws:establishing slavery, be
comei of necesSity, free, for there is no
local law of a municipal , character under
which he Might be held.as a slave. This
piiinCipal is recognized by the decisions
of several Sou ' thern courts. Ilavin ,, gone
so I far , (and, indeed, I cannot see how a
logical mind can escape these conclusions
from Mr. Douglas's own premises,) Mr.
Dbrights, would be obliged to define 'his
pdpular sovereignty td be the 'right of the
people of a Territory, represented, in the
Territorial Legislature, to admit slavery
b positive etiaCtinent, if they see fit,l
bi 4 it being 70W - understood' that a slave
hairier' has not the
,least shadow; of a
right to take his slave property into Pie
Territory before such pesitive legislation
his been had. This definition would
have at least the merit of logical consis
tency.' ...-
"But what does Mr. Douglas say ?--.- 7
"Slavery," so he tells us in his Harper:
\l'article, "slavery being the Brea
tore of local legislation, and - not of the
COnstitution .of the United States, it fol
loWs that the Consti6iltion does not es
tablish
_slavery in' the Territories beyond
the power of the people to control. Why
law. . - What ? • The . Constitution does,
noT'istablish slavery in the .Territories
beyond a certain sonilqthing I .What does
th'at mean ? If slavery is - the creatiire'of
local law, how can the Constitution, 'by
its own force; !permit slaiery to lid iota a
Territory, at ,all 2 - I . . ,
Here is a dark mystery—a
to
and we' may well take care , not • to fall'in
toithe trap of some lOphistry... 'Why does
,liconot speak of the' admlssiOn of slavery
by -nositive enactments ? - -'Why-not.even
oflthe . power of the people to. exclude it,'
bylaw?. We look in, vain for:light, in.,
-Harper's Magaiine, (and is it indeed true
what Judge Black intiniAt ds, 'that that ar= I
ticle-is' one Of the obsettirese- decUments
by. which ever a'politician . Attempted ta
befog his followers?), but we may.gather
Mr. Donc , las'S real opinion froin.anotherl
manifesto 'preceding. this. In his
_Nes , t'
Orleans 'speech, Aeliverektifter hii recent 1
!success in' Illinois, he defined-his position
-
in substance, .as follows: '"The Demecia.•
ey.of Illinois hold that-a slaveholder has
the-Santo right' tit take. his alaiii 'Felicity,
tlto a Territory as -any other inan ' liasl
take his horse, or his mercharthis l ei,
cal What ? Slavery is the creature. of- lo
... . . . • . . ,
lain,, and . yet 41, slaveholder has the,
:right to .take i lls 'ilave.4oroperty Itito n 1
Territory befolaiany local Taw has given .
him that right? A slavC does not beeOtne
f I e, when:. -voluntarily -brought: ,by :his
0 ner upon, the. aoil,C-1 al'ex:rttpry . ,where
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if
t . .pOsitiveoo4l law:iatahlishing. slavery'
exists:: How is thlipasiblit 'How - tali
cien the elastic mind of a Democratic can-
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of dia.' inno . t , is jail:64li) . What ileurpo
Wed, tligl-.4g4 iiiigit", , ts4*idui , (lo , ' I likir
of nature, for the right to hold a alaveis.
"'iinfoUnded in thB - law Of nature; sad its
the. Unwritten and' common ' lavi;'l and
evert Mr. Donglis,' little as he may Care
about nature Ind her laws, will' hardly'
idare.!to* . asscrt that the si , stem "Of slaVe fa.
bor.' is the natural and normal condition
of society. It must then spring from poa:.
itive' law. But &pit *hat kind _of poai--.
ire law ? . Not from any positive, law of
a Focal and municipal character, for there
i s none such in 'the - iferatory so far.
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Where is its source, then ? There is_bnc
one kind of positive law . to which the Ter
ritories aro subject before any local legie.
Ilattoit has been had, and that is the am.
sedation of the Ernited States. If, there.
fore, Mr. 'Douglas asserts,`as he`does, that
a slaveholder has a right to take his slavle •
,
as property into a Territory . , he must, at
I . tbe same time, admit that, to-the absence
'of local legislation positively establish 4 4.
slavery, the Constitution of the. United.
States, the only valid law existing there,
must belhe source of that Tight. .What
else . does Mr. Buchanan assert, but that
slavery exists in the Territories bivirtnei
of the Federal,ConstitutiOn Wherein . ;
then, the point of ditterencebetweeu Mr:
Buchanan and Mr. Douizlas ? 'Why all
this pomp and circumstance of kltirioi*
war ? Whence these fierce battles be:
tween the Montechiluld Capuletti the! .
Demberatie camp ? Are yo noti . biotbei.s7
Rut. Mr. Douglas ie a statesman, - (to
they are all, uh statesmen) indlitieteiadii
that the Constitution - does, net eStabliih:
sla4ery in the Territories,' ". beydit4'
power tithe peo pl e to co7ttrotit
What 'dues that; mean'? , thaS
the , people of a j'eriliory4hall ,h`avi
power to embarrass the slaiohOldei
I enjoyment :of his right. by " unfriendlt
legislatiOn," " The right to hold slavesr
says he in' another place, - " is a mirthless
right,' unless .protected - by appropriate Pa - %
lice regulations. If the people of a Tot
rib:kJ, 'do not want slavery; they havi bite
to withhold all all protection and all frieeid=
ly legislation.'.' Indeed, a most ingenicini.
esedient. •
-But, alas! Here is one of those cm' ea;
where the abstraci admission of i.right'is'
of decisive importance. 'Suppose, for
gunient's nake,a slave might escape freer
his owner in a Territory, iithoat.beintite'
actual - dange'r of recapture ;. would that itit / '
any way affect the cOnstltutionaFrightof
the slaveholder to the possession and 'cit..'
joymeut of his property ?: IL have already' .
quoted Mr. Douglas's own answer to
question. ";If," says he, "slavelexhits
in the Territories by 'virtue of the Condi:.
tution," (that is; if a slaveholder
right to introduce property'
where there is' no other law but . the
stituCon,) "then it becomes the iin . 'pircitiee
duty of Congress; to the . performance Of
which every member is bonnd bkhis OatV,
and conscience, and from-ichich
sideratiri of polity or expedieney'canic,
lease him, to provide by lciw.such acNntite
and complete protection as is essential
the enjoyment of that - important
LAnd Mr. DOuglas,''safter having:
phatically admitted the - right .6f property'
.
in a 'slave, where that right- eprnig
froth; ' no other . -latv hut the
theddares to'spealt 'of tinfriindly MAO&
don. - - Where is his don'efetacel'';'Arlireie 3
is hi 4 oath? 'Where is hie"
pia*" - • "'s
But Mr. Douglas days more; ' '•
"The Constitution beidg the stiPittiii.
law l •Of the land, in:the Statee*Wel
iwthe Territoriee, the.ti
PennsYlvaniajti§tai - Well hs in''lCaliell4!
and lin South Carolina and thelffelit&
sibldconflict is there !"!."..
Aye, the irrepressible= congiet
not Only between the two antagonistin'syss.:' •
terms' of labor; but betWeeit Mril34tOintsr,4
own theories no t only tn . Stata atid'
Terrilciries; but. lit Mr.' Toughie's' tricti
head; ILairghter and. elicers.lNlThafeir=_
er ambiguous "expressions Mr: , Mingles •
may , invent, the dilemma stud' 'tumid'
the facekiind here .f put myself int
own ground, . ) either slavery is excluded'
from the Teiritories so long as it' is not
admitted by a special; act, of Territorial
or, if a slaveholder • has:
right to introduce his slave property there -
before snail legislatien ho - eau pop.
aesithat right by ,virtue - Ofroo• other bu t,
the" only' law existing there, the Constitn 7
don of United States. Either 'Mar!.
tyhie' no rights in the Territories
dept those springing front' 'positive iaw
a loCal:or municipal character p or, aceirdy: ,
ing to ,Tudgei . Douglaa's, own sidinissioty .
the Soushern set - instruction Of tini
tution and of the principle of popular sor.
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